New free dingbat font for die cutters

I am proud to introduce 09 KutUps, a shapes font made especially for SCAL, MTC, Silhouette Studio and other cutting software that can cut truetype fonts. From the ground up this font was designed with diecutting in mind. Every shape has been optimized for cutting and even the font name and configuration have been chosen to make it easy to use with diecutting software.

I have been the recipient of much generosity recently. For example, in 2008 I spent a month’s worth of nights in the Ronald McDonald House near where my son was hospitalized. If you enjoy using this font, I hope you will be generous the next time this fine organization asks for your support. Download the font here. View/download the character map here. 09KutUps is free for personal and commercial use, but may not be sold or shared without my permission. Please also do me the courtesy of directing others to this blog post rather than to the box.com link. And of course, I would love to hear your comments.

7/24/09 Update: This font has become very popular, and many of you have told me that you have honored my request that you make a donation to Ronald McDonald House Charities in return. Thank you so very much. My son had to be admitted to a hospital in another distant town for the last 2 weeks. Once again the Ronald McDonald House there provided support for our family.

5/11/13 Update: This font has been downloaded tens of thousands of times and I am overwhelmed by your response to it and your willingness to honor my request. I have eliminated the mediafire link that had gotten too aggressive and switched over completely to box.net which should be a simpler download. My son has been off treatment for 3 years and has graduated from college and gotten married. I will forever be grateful to the Ronald McDonald House for being there is our darkest days. Thank you for your continued support!

These are so AWESOME, Kay!!! Wow, you work hard on these and it sure shows! this shapes look so handy and possibilities are endless, thank you so much for sharing it with the rest of us – WOW WOW WOW :)

wow this is awesome!!! thanks for sharing!! my kids love pulling the pop tabs off and saving them to give to the ronald mcdonald house and it gets them involved it understanding they are helping other families in a time of need! thanks so much for sharing!!!

Wow!! This is so fabulous! I have been looking for something like this. Thank you for all the hard work, and to make it Free! I will definately think of you the next time I make a donation to Ronald McDonald House!

I hope your son is recovered now and you will no longer need to stay in the house. Thankyou for a fabulous font I can see it being used lots and lots. Next time we are in McD’s I will be putting in a more generous donation than usual in thanks.
Regards
Tracy

I would LOVE to have this font. Thanks for all your hard work. Prayers for your family.
I am having trouble with the mediafire link. I can’t get the file to download. I’ve created a login, changed browsers etc. How do i get the file to MY computer? Thanks in advance for any help.

I found my way here from another Jeanne’s site.. I joined a group in yahoo and this is one of the first posts I saw. I have visited your site before and think you have awesome files and information available. Thank you so much for your time and efforts you put forth to bring us these great pieces!! I greatly appreciate your genorosity! I am new to SCAL and soaking up all I can to learn how to do all these wonderful things! Many blessings:) –Pauline from Michigan

The font looks great! When I go to download, it says it can’t find the file for either the font itself or the cheat sheet. Saw your post about the spiral at the SCAL group at yahoo. Would you be able to email the font & cheat sheet to me?
Thanks!

To smunoz and others that are having trouble downloading, please try again. Mediafire hiccups sometimes and also, you have to make sure you click in the right place. Hundreds of people have successfully downloaded these fonts, but not all of them in the first try :)

Thanks for responding. Is there another place to download besides clicking on “here”? I have tried the font, charater chart and the inkscape template and get the same 404 error. I have tried about 20 times over the last 3 days, maybe it’s just my computer and I just have to stay away from mediafire.
Thank you!

I am happy to report that the font is still there and being successfully downloaded by hundreds of people daily. Make sure you are clicking the right links and that you haven’t already downloaded it to a default location without realizing it.

THANK YOU so very much for the most generous share. I too have donated to Ronald McDonald House and continue to, as I have a little niece with Spina Bifida and she was fortunate enough when she was very little to have an operation in Melb., and her parents stayed at RM House.

When I load the TTF into my “fonts” folder on my PC where all my other fonts are stored, I see all my other fonts on SCAL but don’t see the Kutups font? Is there a special place to install it to?

Just spent a couple of hundred on wizzard nestabilities that will probably never get used now. You are amazingly clever and so kind to MD House. I will contribute to the UK ones for you.
Thanks so much.

Thank you so much for sharing this Font, and you are correct the Ronald McDonald house is a great organization and has helped so many kids. My friend and her family stayed there many times when her daugher was in and out of the hospital, and I have donated many a time too and still will.

Thank you for your generosity. I will give a donation to Ronald McDonald House to thank you for your kindness, to continue in the footsteps of my legend Michael Jackson for his amazing charity work. Love, Clare x

I was having problems finding the font in SCAL. I figured out that I need to install the font before it showed up. Go to control panel, fonts, then install new font. I love these shapes now that I figured out how to use them. Thank you.

Thanks so much for sharing this great dingbat file! I got your link from Robyn at the Pink Stamper! I always donate to the Ronald McDonald House every Christmas – my niece with Downs syndrome had to have several heart surgeries in Floida when she was younger and the Ronald McDonald House was a great help to my brother-in-law’s family during that time – a tremendous, worthwhile project!! Hope everything is going well with your family!

I just love these! Thank you so much for sharing..My daughters all went to U of Fla. and their sorority’s charity was The Ronald McDonald House.It is a wonderful organization…I hope your son is doing better. HUGS

Thank you so much for making/sharing this file. For those of you having trouble downloading it, keep trying, I finally figured it out. The file you actually download is on the left side of the screen, you don’t have to sign up for anything.

I saved it to a SVG file I made to download SVG files for sure cuts alot software.

I opened sure cuts a lot and tried to import it, not here. I couldn’t find it, oh maybe it’s in my fonts, so I refreshed the fonts, still couldn’t find it. Went to the fonts folder on my computer, there it was, but still couldn’t import it there. SOOO…

I ended up right clicking on the font in the fonts folder and clicking on install. When I opened sure cuts a lot again, it was there!!!

Thank you SO much for doing this!! I looked all night last night for a scalloped circle file for my Wishblade with no luck. Today someone pointed me here, and this is exactly what I need- and a few more shapes I’ve been wanting, too!!

AWESOME FONT.. thank you..
I try to do one random act of kindness at least once a week.. sometimes when I drive thru a fast food place, I’ll pay for the next person and tell the cashier to let them know to pass on the kindness sometime in the future.. Its not much, but I believe it comes back to me someway…

Click on the first link (the word “here”) in the paragraph below the images, then what you see at mediafire will depend on your browser and pop-up settings but you are looking for the link on the right hand side of the page that says “click here to begin download”. If you get an error at mediafire, try again later. Sometimes they get overloaded.

hi. I love your work. I tried downloading these and when i go to my downloads and ready to transport them to my font folder, it says font not valid. Am i doing something wrong. I finally got it to stop giving me that error message, but now they dont show up in my SCAL Programme. What do i do next?

Hi krissy. Make sure you refresh the font list in SCAL after you install the font. If that doesn’t work try the SCAL boards for help. I am on a Mac and don’t know anything about installing fonts in Windows. sorry.

[…] so I could cut it with my Cricut and SCAL software. The little scallop frame was from the free font Kutups. I cut the template from a sheet of double-sided K&Co pattern paper and clipped bits from the […]

Thank you so much! I was directed to your blog by Robyn the Pink Stamper. The shapes in this font package are varied and useful enough to be an entire cricut cartridge of their own! SO many applications are already in my head. It is very generous of you to allow the file download at no profit to yourself. I will definitely donate to Ronald McDonald House.

I have used this font and was able to adapt one of the flower /circle shapes also for a circle slider card. the other shapes are equally amazing. this would have taken me hours and nours of work even to attempt. Thanks so much! Brilliant!

This font is awesome! Thank you so much. I, too, have benefitted from the availability of Ronald McDonald house. I haven’t donated in a while and this was a good reminder. My $50 donation is on the way to them!

I know I am the 223 person to thank you for the font…I am new to blogging and I’m going to try to link to your blog from mine. Thanks a million for all the work….and letting all your internet friends benefit….

I am very new to this and just found your site from the obsessedwithscrapbooking site. I would love to try this download but I can’t figoure out how to download it. I am very new at this kind of stuff but would love to try this out. Can you give me the Download for Dummies version of how to get this. Sorry, just trying to step out of my comfort zone and experience the possibilit

Annette,
Please read the paragraph text carefully to help you select the right files. The download links are on the word “here.” This will take you to mediafire for the download. Look past the popups for the link there. Can’t be more specific because it will depend on your browser.

I am so dissapointed, I got a new computer and lost the download to your wonderful font. Is it no longer available? I used this font/dingbat creation all the time and it is the best! Please make it available again!!!

This looks so cool. I have to buy SCAL now so I can get your shapes. Awesome. I have been banned from the Cricut Cheats site because I did not download it in time. How can i be forgiven? I am not at my home so will not have a printer for a couple months. Is there any way I can get it once more when I return home? Your fan, Bev.

Just wondering if there is a way to copy an image (like one of the screenshots on a Cricut Cartridge and maybe paste it in paint to only select the image you want. Then clean it up enough in Inkscape to possible cut it out in either SCAL OR MTC! I have both programs. If anyone knows how to do this – or knows of a tutorial of how to do it – could you please email me?
Thanks!
Rene’sjcehill@yahoo.com

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I was wondering if this can still be downloaded I dont see a link for the download, am I missing it? This is exactly what im looking for, please I know this is an older post but would love to be able to download this
Lynn in Lancaster Ca
THE DATE IS April 29,2010

[…] and there was room to cut a couple scallop circles on the paper too (I used the dingbat font Kutups09 from Clever Someday, it is a fantastic font and Free!) so it was just a matter of mixing, inking […]

This file is so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing it. I was going to go and buy anther cartridge called Lacey labels until I found this file last night. Thank you so much, now the money I would have spent on a cartridge will go to help other as I will donate it to ronald mc donald house. May God bless you and your son. I will be putting a link to your wonderful site on my blog.

I am blown away with this set! This is like an everyday ‘go-to’ set and every element is something that I will be able to use!!! I don’t recall anyone ever giving me something that I can put to good use every day! Thank you so very much for your time, artistic talents, and most of all for giving it so freely from your heart.

I finally used this font and it is soooo coooool. I am working on my halloween cards and needed a scalloped circle. I went online to figure out how to use it in my SCAL program (yes, I have been putting off using this program for a very long time) I typed in the letter b and the scallop circle was perfect. I set it to 4.25 inches and it cut perfectly. I think you should change your name from clever someday to “clever all the time” LOL Have a good one.

I have tried to download 09kutups. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. I have SCAL 2.038. I’m new at this, so I have no idea what I need to do so that I can use these wonderful shapes with my cricut. PLEASE HELP!

Tif,
You need to install the font in your computer system, then it will show up in SCAL automatically. If you don’t know how to install a font, check the help files on your computer as it is different for every operating system.

Thank you so much for sharing your creation. Ronald Mcdonald House is my favorite charity. I wish more people were aware of how much help they provide to the families of sick children.
I am heading over and make a contribution after I post this
Sue Kaye

Thank you so so much for this font! It has been so useful in creating signs and little details that have added so much to my parties!
I am thinking about getting started in selling some of my printables (i.e. labels, invitations, banners, etc). Would I be able to get permission to use your shapes in my designs?
Thanks so much for all your creativity! It makes things so much easier for those of us who have a vision and know nothing about computer programming…

Thank you for your generosity! I do hope that your son is greatly improved by his medical care. When I was an education coordinator for a JoAnn store I was the store’s liason with the Ronald McDonald House and I know what a great help they are for families. As an R.N., I understand the tremendous need. I’d be pleased to donate.

Thank you for the fonts. I hope your son is ok.
I live in israel, so I cannot donate for the institution thas you asked but I donated 50$ to the The Israeli Foundation for Handicapped Children -which assists thousands of physically impaired children and adults suffering from neuromuscular disorders such as infantile paralysis, cerebral palsy, and muscular dystrophy
Judith Liron

I am so glad to hear that your son is doing well, Kay. It has been two years since you posted this link but I only found it today. Your family will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers. The link you provided makes it so easy to make a donation and I greatly appreciate that.

311.Tam | July 3, 2011 at 8:25 pm

I just found this and will gladly donate the next time I am Mickey D’s. They have helped our family so much. So I surely understand the need. Thank you very kindly.

[…] The cherry blossoms on Heather’s page are from the Japanese Flower Girls collection by My Scrap Chick. The branch with the birds on it on Michael’s page is from Scrapped Lives; the little bird on the right is from Wall Decor and More. The big bracket in both their pages is from the 09 KutUps font from Clever Someday! […]

[…] The mat I made for the stamped oval uses the first easy technique. To do this simply measure the hight and width of the stamped image and type those measurements into the properties box of scal. Then select appearance and chose a shadow of .5 to 1 and that will leave a nice border to your stamped art and smooth the edges of the design. I used an oval scallop from the free font 09 Kutups by Clever Someday. […]

This is an amazing font! I’ve made about 5 donations this year to RMH, but will make another one in your name. They are my favorite charity. As a PICU doctor, I can’t even tell you how amazing they have been to my patients’ families. The support they provide just can’t be measured.

Thank you for your generosity! I’m really enjoying your blog and your clever ideas! I, too, have benefitted from the amazing charity of the Ronald McDonald House. My daughter was born at 24 weeks and spent nearly 10 months in the NICU. We lived at the Ronald McDonald House for over 100 days. We were well taken care of during this extremely difficult time in our lives. We donate on a regular basis. I am new to your blog, but I hope to hear good things about your son! Thanks again for the font, as well as the shout out about RMH!

This font would have been very useful for my art project, but I got an error when I opened the downloaded file. The error says: “The requested file …9KUTUPS.TTF is not a valid font file.” Am I missing something?

Hi just started using electronic cutter and came across this font,,,love it but having difficulties installing it. Says font is installed but doesn’t appear in fonts list or in the programs. using windows 7. is there any other way to access this font/install it so it will work.

Pamela,
You should never download or open an application when you are trying to download a font, and I am sorry you clicked a wrong button somewhere. My font has been downloaded successfully tens of thousands of times, but just to prevent any problems I had already deleted the mediafire link and switched over to box.com before your comment. Thanks for allowing me to point out to my readers that you should only download a .zip, .ttf, or .otf file if it is a font you are after. Do not ever download an .exe!

I too am having problems understanding how to download this. I click on the number below all the graphics and it brings me to this page. I don’t see any other links on this page to use. I have tried different browsers thinking that might make a difference but it didn’t.

Thank you! This ding bat font is exactly what I was looking for!
Made a donation towards “paying it forward” and thank you for generously sharing your awesome digital file!!! Most of all … so glad to hear about your son’s success!

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My daughter was diagnosed with Metastatic Melanoma Stage 3) in December of 2013. After multiple surgeries between December and the end of February she is now cancer free. She goes to the oncologist next week and then will have a PetScan to determine if the Melanoma has moved elsewhere. She is still on the road to recovery and will be for long time.

is this font still available? I would love to have it but can’t seem to find a link to the download? Also, we had a neice born with premature and her parents too spent a lot of time in the McDonald House, her dad now works for McDonalds and is quite involved, it is a great place!!… I would LOVE TO have this font!!

It’s a shame you don’t have a donate button! I’d definitely donate to this excellent blog!
I guess for now i’ll settle for book-marking and adding your RSS feed to my Google
account. I look forward to brand new updates and will share this blog
with my Facebook group. Talk soon!

Thank you for creating this as a font. I am not handy with Photoshop and have been trying to get simple shapes like these into Microsoft Word for a couple hours now!

By the way my antivirus wouldn’t allow me to open this webpage. It called it suspicious and would close the page. I had to turn my antivirus off completely before I could get in to get the font. Thanks for sharing!!

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Hi! Love these dingbats! I followed the “here” link but it only takes me to the character map. I don’t see a way to actually download. Are these still available? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!!

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